Necktie



J1me 1947- I J. E. JOHh ISON 2,422,419

NECKTIE "Filed Oct. 31; 1944 INVENT OR.

M ZM/ Joe ephEJoFWusoR Patented June 17, 1947 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE NECKTIE.

, Joseph E. ohnson, Islington, Application October 31, 1944, Serial No. 561,281 7 8 Claims.

This invention relates to a four-in-hand necktie having novel and improved means for fastening its terminal portions to each other and to a shirt button. The invention aims to provide simple and inexpensive fastening means which shall add but little cost of material or labor and which shall modify the necktie as little as possible while still accomplishing its purpose. The invention will be understood by reference to the following description when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing of two embodiments thereof, While its scope will be pointed out more particularly in the appended claims.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a necktie embodying the invention;

Fig. 2 is a sectional view on line 22 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a modification; and

Fig. 4 is a View of a second modification.

Referring to the drawing and to the embodiments of the invention illustrated therein as examples of the. invention, there is shown in each embodiment a four-in-hand necktie comprising a band 4 whose central portion is passed around the shirt collar and whose terminal portions. 6 and 8, after the formation of the usual knot, overlie each other on the shirt front and cover most of the buttons down the front of the shirt.

In the embodiment shown in Fig. 1 the narrower terminal portion of the necktie is abbreviated or shortened as compared with the embodiment shown in Fig. 3 in which the narrower terminal portion is not only longer but wider than the one shown in Fig. 2'.

In each embodiment there is attached to the narrower terminal portion 8 a ligature ii! such as heavy thread or cord securely anchored thereto as by stitches l2, and having a free end I l preferably thickened or reinforced as at It as by a series of knots, for example, to give it sufiicient substance to facilitate manipulating it in tucking it through or beneath the keepers presently to be described, on the wider terminal portion 6. In the embodiment shown in Fig. 2, this ligature is attached to the narrower terminal portion close to the end of the latter because it is, as stated, abbreviated, while in the case of an embodiment shown in Fig. 3, the ligature I is secured to the terminal portion 8 at a considerable distance from the end. In the case of the embodiment shown in Fig. 3, however, the narrower terminal portion 8 is provided with a button-holed eyelet I 8 through which the reinforced terminal portion l6 of the ligature I0 may be 2 passed. Preferably, thiseyelet is rather near theanchor 12 of the ligature ID.

.The described ligature I0 is intended for. attachment to the wider terminal portion 6 and the latter, in each embodiment, is to that end provided with a longitudinal series or succession of keepers 20 beneath .or behind which the ligature It] may be passedas illustrated in Fig. 2. A convenient way of forming .these keepers is by the use of a ligature 22 in the nature of a heavy thread or cord having at one end a knot 24, at its other end a knot 26 (see Fig. 2), and between these knots, at intervals, there are stitches 28 which firmly anchor both ends of each keeper 2!).

In the case of the embodiment shown in Fig. 2, with its abbreviatednarrower terminal portion, in adjusting the tie to the collar and in forming the knot the end of the narrower terminal portion is arranged'at a considerable distance above the end of the wider terminal portion as in Fig. 1, for example. Thisembodiment is desirable because its abbreviated narrower terminal position results in an economy of material as compared with the one shown in Fig. 3, and a further economy results from the lack of the eyelet l8 which characterizes the one shown in Fig. 3. However, some persons would prefer the full length tie shown in Fig. 3.

In the case of each embodiment, the provision of a series of keepers 20 provides a considerable measure of adjustability enabling the ligature 10 to be passed beneath the keeper which is the nearest to the anchor I 2 of the ligature In. In the case of the embodiment shown in Fig. 1, the ligature In is then wound about the thread of the nearest button on the shirt front, thus anchoring both ends of the tie to keep them from becoming disarranged, while in the case of the one shown in Fig. 3, the operation is the same except that the ligature It must be passed through the eyelet l8, as shown, befor attachment to the button.

In the second modification illustrated in Fig. 4, the construction is the same as in the first form illustrated in Figs, 1, and 2 except that there is employed a ligature IBA, much shorter than the ligature l0, and provided at its free end with a terminal IBA differing from the terminal I6 in that the terminal 16A is in the nature of a small loop of elastic material such as commercially available fabric-covered rubber. This loop should be small enough to require slight elongation to enable it to be passed over a shirt button and thus to fasten the ligatur IUA to the button instead of winding the ligature about the button threads as in the case of the first two forms of the invention.

Having thus described these embodiments of the invention what I claim is:

1. In a four-in-hand necktie, a band having two terminal portions, one of which overlies the other when the necktie is in use, a ligature disposed along one te,rminal portion andiastened thereto at intervals, thns forming between th'e fastening points succession of keepers along the rear face of such terminal portion, and a ligature attached to the other terminal portion and new: ing a free end to be passed under any onej'o'f said keepers and then attached toa shirt button. 7 2. In a four-in-hand necktie, 'a band having two terminal portions, one oilwh ich'overlies the other when the necktie is in use, a lengthwise series of keepers facingrearwardly from the rear face of the overlying terminal portion, and a ligature having one end secured to the underlying terminal portion and 'hawing a free end to be passed under anyone of said-keepers to connect said terminal,portion'together and then attached to a shirt button. V

.3. In a fouriin-hand necktie, a band having two terminal p'ortions; one of which overlies the otheizwhen the necktie is in use; a series of keep er ia longr the rear facebf one terminallportion, and a ligature having one end secured to the other terminal portion arid' having a free end to be passed Jlihd'er any one of said keepers and then attached to, a shi-rtbutton; such other terminal portion having an opening at a .consid'erable'distance from its end to receive the free end of said ligature;

.41 In, a rourein-handi necktie, the combination of a band having two terminal portions; 2; length wise series of keepers along andfa'ci-ng rearward ly from the rear face of one terminal portion, and a ligature secured to the other terminai'portion and "havinga free end to be passed beneath any one ofsaid lengthwise series of keeper'svand 4 when in use, the underlying one having an a erture, the overlying one being provided with a lengthwise series of keepers, and a ligature secured to the underlying one and having a free end to be passed first under one of said keepers, then through said aperture, and finally secured to a shirt button.

presenting a loop to be looped about a shirt 'but- H ton. l l

5. In a ioiin-in-ha'nd necktie, aband havingtwo terminal portions, one of which overlies the other 6. In a four-in-hand necktie, a band having two terminal portions, one of which overlies the other when iii use, a;lengthwisesuccession of keepers along the overlying terminal portion, and means carried by the underlying terminal portion to be passed underany one of said lengthwise series of keepers and then secured to a shirt button.

7i In a four-in-hand necktie, a band having twoterminalportions, one of which overlies the other when in use, a lengthwise succession of keeper" along and wholly at the rear of the overlying terminal portion, the underlying terminal portion having a p rt to bev p s under ny n of said keepers and wholly at the rear of the I REFERENCES can; The following 'ieferencesar'' 'of record in'the file of this patent:

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